Author: Murdoch, Adrian

The death of the Roman emperor Constantine's grandson Julian (Flavius Claudius Julianus, AD 332-363) on a Persian battlefield has become synonymous with the death of paganism. Drawing on over 700 pages of Julian's own writings, this book shows that during his two-year reign he enacted reforms intended to reverse the Christian tide then sweeping the Roman Empire. After his death, the Church vilified him as the "Apostate"and used paganism as a synonym for evil, a tactic whose traces still linger today. Now in paper. 280 pp.